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ARHOPALA HELLENORE. 

 Plate 676, figs. 3, ,J , 3a, ? , 3b, ^ . 



Arhopala hellenore, Doherty, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 422, pi. 23, fig. 7, ^ . de Niceville, 

 Butt, of India, iii. p. 265 (1890). Elwes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1892, p. 632. Watson, Journ. Bo. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, p. 47, and 1897, p. 663. 



Arhopala viridissima, Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1890, p. 449. 



Arhopala eumolphiis, Bethune-Baker (part), Trans. Zool. Soc. 1903, p. 104. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside green, of the same colour and brilliancy as in eumolphus. 

 Forewing with a fine black costal line very slightly increasing in thickness towards the 

 apex, outer marginal black band narrow, very narrow at the apex, gradually increasing 

 in width hindwards and not running up the hinder margin. Hindwing with the green 

 colour more extensive than in eumolphus, with two streaks filling up the basal halves 

 of interspaces 2 and 3 and part of the first interspace, for three-fourths its length. 

 Cilia and tail as in eumolphus. Underside much paler, the ground colour is somewhat 

 shining, grey tinged with pinkish, with darker shades of colour in parts of the wings ; 

 markings similarly disposed, but all much larger, in most examples at least three times 

 as large, the small round spot in the base of the third interspace of Forewing replaced 

 by the outwardly oblique bar with a more or less pointed end. Hindwing not darker 

 than the forewing, the discal band commencing broadly on the costa, formed of broad, 

 square, conjoined spots and its hinder portion generally becomes lost in the dark 

 sufi"usion in the lower part of the wing ; the anal lobe has a deep black spot, and there 

 are some metallic green scales preceding it. 



Female. Upperside much darker blue than the female of eumolphus. Forewing 

 with the costal line finely black, the outer marginal black border even in width and 

 narrow. Hindwing with the dark blue coloration as uniform as it is on the forewing, 

 the costal and outer marginal borders uniformly and narrowly black, very little broader 

 than it is on the other wing. Underside with the coloration much as it is in the 

 female of eumolphus, but the spots are larger, and the discal band of the forewing is 

 more continuous, the shifting of the fifth spot hardly discernible. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? If'o to 2 inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Mergui. 



Distribution. — Appears to be distributed fairly well all over Burma, Doherty's 

 type came from Tenasserim, our type from Mandalay, and we have it also from 

 Rangoon, Elwes records it from Mergui, Watson from Chin Lushai and the Chin Hills. 

 It is a good local form of eumolphus, easily recognisable. 



ARHOPALA SILHETENSIS. 



Plate 677, figs. 1, ^, la, ?, lb, $. 

 Amblypodia silhetensis, Hewitson, Cat. Lye. B. M. p. 7, pi. 4, figs. 27, 28, (J (1862). 

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